the.com/sundress
The one garment that makes forecasting feel like personality.
means A lightweight, sleeveless, usually strapped dress cut for bare skin and warm weather, with no lining or sleeves to get in the way of summer.
from A plain English compound — 'sun' plus 'dress' — first stitched together in the early-to-mid 20th century as sleeveless, backless summer fashions came into vogue. No hidden roots to dig up here: the name is literal, built the way the garment is, with everything unnecessary left off.
- origin
- popularized 1940s as fabric rationing demanded less dress
- function
- engineered to be put on in one motion, panic-free
- myth
- not actually required to be destroyed before october
- economics
- single most weather-reactive purchase in retail